January 24 – May 12, 2024
About:
An installation that explores the intersection of the cinematic apparatus, industrial management, and modernism. A set recreates mid 20th century film studio designed to produce industrial films, here objects take on a life of their own, the camera refuses to stay hidden and everything goes wrong…
Photo Credit: Zoe Beloff
Curatorial Text:
An installation that explores the intersection of the cinematic apparatus, industrial management, and modernism. The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff sets the eponymous cartoon alongside an investigation of productive and unproductive bodies. A set recreates mid 20th century film studio designed to produce industrial films, here a three-channel projection presents a lesson in efficiency based on the Gilbreth’s time-motion studies, a case of contagious paranoia and a third much stranger instructional film where objects take on a life of their own, the camera refuses to stay hidden and everything goes wrong…
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